[Note: This is another blog based on my weekly emails to my family on the mainland.]
12/4/21
Aloha All --
Winter has arrived in paradise! This week we got our first snow of the season. No shoveling for me,
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I now have outdoor lights up and nearly all of my decorations, but the neighbors have been slow to get with the season. So far there is just two others that have outdoor lights.
As if the rain and the usual Christmas discombobulation weren't enough, we had our carpets in the main part of the house cleaned on Thursday. It was been many years since this was done, and we've been putting it off too long. Some people don't make this a big deal, and just clean in the "high traffic" areas. Not us. Karen insisted on moving a lot of the furniture and this in turn required relocating a lot of stuff temporarily. And it takes a while for the carpet to dry before you can fully get back to normal. Thursday was sunny and helped a lot for partial drying, and Friday wasn't bad until evening when the rain started. Today we will probably be able to move most of stuff back in and maybe get our Christmas tree up. I can see the allure of the current fashion here which is to install stone tile everywhere in a house. Last week we went through an open-house at a $1.8 million place nearby that even had concrete floors!
We're not done with the carpet cleaning, either. On Thursday the crew will return and do the two guest bedrooms. This will will require less effort to get things ready, thankfully
No golf this week for me, though Karen may play tomorrow with her Oregon friend who arrived Wednesday for a short visit. Also, her regular golf partner is eager to go sometime next week, and they may make it a threesome. No Planet Fitness this week, either. This is my yearly holidaze slugfest.
Ok, that's it. Take care. Stay warm. Stay safe. Avoid buggy people. Find something good to think about...
4 comments:
crazy year when Hawaii has more snow than Montana where fires are breaking out in many sites...
So true. Strangeness is the new normal, it seems.
Nix on carpeting. We have vinyl flooring, and not the kind I grew up with. People think ours is real wood, looks great, easy to keep clean, not cold to walk on with bare feet, and don’t need to fret if you spill wine on it.
We have something like that in our kitchen/dining room and I like it. We have stone tile in our entry way and although it looks nice it is cold and hard. One problem with tile or with solid floors of any kind -- they don't hide the dirt as well as carpet does, if you pick the right color. The tile and vinyl are easy to clean, but you have to do it frequently or you'll have dust bunnies the size of Harvey but unfortunately not invisible like he is ....
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